MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'gallup poll'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:45:25 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4031307&cid=t_251320_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2010%2F10%2F04%2Fproof-positive-cant-buy-me-love-but-what-about-happiness%2F “Too many people spend money they haven’t earned, to buy things they don’t want, to impress people they don’t like.” – Will Smith “What’s a soup kitchen?” – Paris Hilton Daniel Gilbert, Harvard psychologist and author of the best-selling Stumbling on Happiness, gave the keynote address at the American Psychological Association convention earlier this year. He challenged the three things he said his mother told him would make him happy: marriage, money and children. I’ve discussed the first one in talking about how, or if, relationships can make us happy. But now it is time to ask to ask the $64,000 question. Which, as it turns out, is the $75,000 question. I’ll explain… Can money make you happy? Is it true that th... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4031307 Mon, 04 Oct 2010 13:29:32 +0100 4031307 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3790687&cid=t_251320_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2F-E3Dv0FCqOk%2F By Michael F. CannonMaggie Mahar responds to my response to her critique of Michael Tanner’s claim that ObamaCare is deeply unpopular.  Mahar’s alternative narrative, espoused by many on the Left, is that “the more voters learn more about the reform legislation, the more they seem to like it.” Mahar shows that her narrative works if you begin looking for a trend at the high-water mark of opposition, if you look at a few select polls, if you look at not-so-straightforward poll questions, if you interpret simultaneous declines in both support and opposition as growing support, and if you devise a rationale for ignoring the views of those who most oppose ObamaCare.  Which is to say, her narrative doesn’t work.  ObamaCare remains deeply unpopular. Mahar claims ... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3790687 Mon, 26 Jul 2010 17:16:54 +0100 3790687 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3212327&cid=t_251320_87_f&fid=38368&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FDisruptiveWomenInHealthCare%2F%7E3%2FlRPxlJJ8kb0%2F I’ve grown weary of the public continuing to rate nurses as the most trusted profession (annual Gallup polls every year of this decade except 2001 when fire fighters understandably led the ratings), only to have leaders in health care agree but ignore us. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation released a Gallup poll that surveyed over 1500 opinion leaders in health care, including government officials, health care and insurance executives, and university faculty. The survey found that: Doctors (54%) and nurses (42%) are the information sources about health and healthcare in whom opinion leaders have a great deal of confidence. Government (75%) and health insurance executives (56%) are viewed as most likely to exert a great deal of influence on health reform, compared to only 37% for doc... Disruptive Women in Health Care blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3212327 Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:17:55 +0100 3212327 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2934657&cid=t_251320_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FTwfUIfDaPW0%2F In today’s Washington Post, William Kristol exults: The Gallup poll released Monday shows the public’s conservatism at a high-water mark. Some 40 percent of Americans call themselves conservative, compared with 36 percent who self-describe as moderates and 20 percent as liberals. Gallup often asks people how they describe themselves. But sometimes they classify people according to the values they express. And when they do that, they find a healthy percentage of libertarians, as well as an unfortunate number of big-government “populists.” For more than a dozen years now, the Gallup Poll has been using two questions to categorize respondents by ideology: Some people think the government is trying to do too many things that should be left to individuals and businesses... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2934657 Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:02:30 +0100 2934657 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2916088&cid=t_251320_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FJHuFE6-xScU%2F Kathleen Parker in the Washington Post: Arguments for and against decriminalization of some or all drugs are familiar by now. Distilled to the basics, the drug war has empowered criminals while criminalizing otherwise law-abiding citizens and wasted billions that could have been better spent on education and rehabilitation. By ever-greater numbers, Americans support decriminalizing at least marijuana, which millions admit to having used, including a couple of presidents and a Supreme Court justice. A recent Gallup poll found that 44 percent of Americans favor legalization for any purpose, not just medical, up from 31 percent in 2000. Read the whole thing.  For more Cato work, go here. (Source: Cato-at-liberty) Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2916088 Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:19:19 +0100 2916088 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2645267&cid=t_251320_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FAdadN9XnA6Y%2F A recent Gallup Poll surveyed the public’s impression of how various federal agencies were doing their job.  Of the agencies evaluated, on the bottom was the Federal Reserve Board.  Only 30 percent of the respondents rated the Fed’s performance as either excellent or good.  I can understand now why Chairman Bernanke felt the need to take his act on the road.  Even the IRS managed to get 40 percent of respondents to see its job performance as excellent or good. A majority of the public, 57 percent, sees the Fed’s current performance as either poor or fair. The result is not just driven by a general public disdain for federal agencies; over a majority of respondents thought such agencies as the Center for Disease Control, NASA and the FBI were doing an excellent or good... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2645267 Mon, 27 Jul 2009 16:45:32 +0100 2645267 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2441276&cid=t_251320_87_f&fid=34825&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wesleyjsmith.com%2Fblog%2F2009%2F05%2Fgallup-poll-on-what-is-morally.html Human exceptionalism is not only about human rights, but also human duties, including never using human beings as mere objects and the need to treat animals properly and humanely. The new Gallup Poll about what Americans consider morally acceptable behavior is interesting in both regards, and thus worth our pondering. (Part of the poll measured matters beyond our scope here at SHS, and these issues will not be addressed. The poll was also promoted by Gallup as showing Republicans growing increasingly "conservative." We don't do partisan politics here, and moreover, what some call conservative, I think of as liberal--such as opposing assisted suicide. So, let's ignore those matters, too.)For ease of reading, in this post I will look at the questions that dealt with the treatment of animals,... Secondhand Smoke blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2441276 Thu, 21 May 2009 16:12:00 +0100 2441276